productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export … services and manufacturing for 2010-2014. Our findings are threefold. First, high productivity is an important, but not a … sufficient condition for exporting. Firm size (substitute for productivity), import status, and foreign ownership are also …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the …

related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission intensity is, however, negatively related to firms. productivity and … exports. The basic reason for these results is that a larger production scale supports more investments in abatement and, in …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

-sectoral resource allocation (IRA) and by within-sector selection of firms according to productivity (which we call Melitz selection …

sales and exporting probabilities but also makes exports less sensitive to trade policy; (ii) the most productive exporters …

-month one-off export events (observed once in a 49 month window). On average, for an export-active firm, such one-off exports … guides our empirical investigation. We find that one-off exports arise relatively more often to far-away, low-income or … unstable destinations; moreover, one-off exporting is associated with lower productivity and smaller firm size …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …